Example sentences of "which is [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turn , therefore , to what I consider to be the primary issue in this appeal , namely , whether there exists a principle whereby a subject who makes a payment in response to a demand of taxation ( or other like demand ) from the Crown which is unlawful either because it is wholly ultra vires or merely excessive thereby acquires a prima facie right to its repayment forthwith as money had and received . |
| 2 | Talking about depression is not something we do much , which is odd really because everybody gets depressed and vast numbers of us need help from time to time . |
| 3 | Until now they have represented a mass of public opinion which is noisy rather than articulate , and more remarkable for its courage than its ability to coalesce as an organised force . |
| 4 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 5 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 6 | He described it as ‘ a sort of mechanised private file and library in which an individual stores his books , records and communications , and which is mechanised so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility ’ . |
| 7 | Circularity results only if information is used in justifying the choice which is available only if the choice is resolved in one way rather than another . |
| 8 | A simplified Chart representation of a portion of an utterance which is interpretable either as this new display or as this nudist play . |
| 9 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 10 | In short , they learn to relate in a way which is inclusive rather than exclusive . |
| 11 | Although you should not be cold , it is better to have a room which is cool rather than too warm in order to avoid feeling sleepy . |
| 12 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 13 | This merely amounts to saying that if two things are observed as spatially distinct , then they are not observed as spatially indistinct , which is true enough but hardly illuminating . |
| 14 | I can take it over there for the first service which is free anyway and I can take it back to Swansea for the others ca n't I ? |
| 15 | White-breasted race alba is the only owl which is golden-buff above and white below , though most often seen ghost-like in the dusk , or caught in the headlights of a car , when it appears all-white . |
| 16 | Amongst the offices listed are the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and that of bailiff of the Manor of Northstead the existence of which is nominal only but ‘ appointment' ’ of a Member of Parliament to which is the traditional manner of resigning a seat . |
| 17 | And this selectivity is of course justified by my immediate aim , which is phonological rather than sociolinguistic — to discover whether we can reasonably speak of a meat/mate merger in Belfast English . |
| 18 | The horse dentist will smooth the sharpness away by using a metal rasp which is rubber backwards and forwards over the teeth . |
| 19 | ( a ) The speller , not sure about the way to write a particular sound , chooses a form which is wrong here but correct in a different spelling context : nessessary ( as in lesson ) hows ( house ) ( as in how ) . |
| 20 | The German Ideology represents , therefore , a first foray into anthropology , which is important more because of its attempt to isolate such general problems as the relation between property and the State , the growth of consciousness , and the way material circumstances produce mental concepts than for specific formulations about the nature of pre-capitalist systems or the way the evolution of society had taken place . |
| 21 | Our view then , which is undiminished today and is at the centre of the debate , is that it ought not to be the function of the social security system to support students , not only because of the administrative burden placed on the Department 's local benefit offices and local authorities , but because there already exists a maintenance system for those in full-time education . |
| 22 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 23 | Community and confrontation do n't go together , which is fair enough but a bit cosy . |
| 24 | Which is fair enough because one of the things I mentioned about the benefits of er or the things we should try to achieve in retirement or secure in retirement , is that if you 've had a challenge in life whilst you 're working then for goodness sake do n't drop it when you retire . |
| 25 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 26 | I think it 's things with big chunky bits in I do n't fancy which is silly really cos that 's the fruit in it , but still |